Improvement in the manufacture of cigar-wrappers



V. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS DIXON, OF LYNN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND MOSES SWEETSER OF NEWBURY'PCRT, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ClGAR-WRAPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 25,604, dated September'27, 1859.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, FRANCIS DIXON, of

Lynn,in the countyof Essex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Manufacture of Tobacco=Wrappers or Outside Coverings Used in Making Cigars; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described in the following specification.

It iswell known that the external covering of acigar,or whatis usually termed the wrapper thereof, has been made by. taking tobacco in the natural state of its leaf and winding it about the internal part or filling. In the propess of making cigars more or less of the leaf, which, generally speaking,is of the better quality of tobacco, is wasted and cannot be employed for making wrappers.

- take ordinary leaf-tobacco as sold in the mar-.

ket, and by means or mechanism such as generally adapted for converting rags or various other materials into paper-pulps I reduce the said leaf-tobacco to a pulp, using such aquantity of wateror other proper liquid as may be necessary for such reduction. After the pulp has been so formed it is to be converted into sheets, like paper, by the usual means or mechanism generally employed for making into pa.- per-pulp from rags. In other words, I make from the tobacco-leaf what may be termed a f tobacco-paper, although it is not intended to .be used as common paper is ordinarily employed, but is for the special purpose-that of constituting part of a cigar-as above set forth.

I have found that a superior article of cigarwrapper may be thus manufactured and with great economy and advantage. I would also remark that instead of convertingthe tobacco pulp directly into sheets it may be formed in amold orworked upas RaP er-mach isllsually wrought, although I do not consider'this latter mode of forming a cigar-wrapper so advantageous as that of reducing the pulp into the form of thin sheets of any desirable length or size.

I do not claim any process of'making paper; nor do I claim constructing or making cigar-wrappers in the ordinary and Well-known manner out of a leaf of tobacco in its natural and cured state, nor the making of paper out of tobacco stems or stalks, nor the admixture of tobacco with paper-pulp; but

What I do claim is-- A new article of manufacture forthe special purpose as above set forth, the same consisting of tobacco-leaf reduced to pulp and subsequently converted into sheets or other desirable form suitable for use, or in the making of cigar-wrappers, as explained.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 13th day of August, A. D. 1857.

FRANCIS DIXON.

Witnesses DAN WEED, BEJN. EDWARDS. 

